Anthony's defense filed motions to have her statements to law enforcement thrown out from the first days after Caylee was reported missing.

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Perry denied the defense motions and ruled Friday afternoon that all of the statements will be allowed at the trial.

Defense attorneys contend that while Anthony had not been read her Miranda rights, she was essentially in custody and being interrogated.

On July 15, 2008, Casey's mother, Cindy Anthony, called 911 several times and told an operator she wanted to have her daughter arrested for stealing money from her. She later told the dispatcher that her daughter's car smelled like a dead body and that she not seen her granddaughter for a month.

That night, detectives arrived at the family home on Hope Spring Drive and questioned several members of the Anthony family.

Detectives admit they handcuffed Casey Anthony for a short time but said she was not a suspect at that point in her daughter's disappearance.

Anthony took detectives to Universal Studios Florida the next day to search for evidence early on in the investigation. Halfway into the tour, she admitted she hadn't worked there for a while. That's when detectives took her into a conference room and confronted her.

"You're telling us that you lied to us," a detective told Anthony. "You're telling us you're giving us misinformation. This needs to end."

"The truthful thing is I have not seen my daughter. The last time that I saw her was on the 9th of June," Anthony said.

"And what happened to Caylee?" the detective asked.

"I don't know," Anthony replied.

In Perry's order, he noted the legal importance of the fact that Cindy Anthony called 911 to summon authorities to her home.

"The officers responding to Cindy's 911 calls were summoned to the Anthony home; they did not summon (Casey Anthony)," Perry wrote. Perry said that Miranda rights did not need to be read to Anthony that night.

Perry said that the trip to Universal was done by Anthony on a volunteer basis, not by force.

"(Anthony) agreed to travel to Universal to assist the police in verifying information about Zenaida. While it is true that she was escorted to the theme park by two officers, she went there out of her own volition. She was not forcibly removed from her home and brought to the park against her will," Perry said in the order.

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A separate defense motion argued that investigators were using members of the Anthony family as so-called "agents of the state.

Anthony's defense team argues that as investigators were building their case against her, they manipulated her family to get information from her under the guise of trying to find Caylee Anthony.

Perry said that the family's own testimony at recent hearings indicated they were doing what they could to get information from Anthony, conflicting with the defense's claims that they were solely "agents of the state."

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